T and I: god is in the details

Both T and I agree that to write well one has to invest in details. 

Indians, I finds, have a particularly poor eye for details.

I has a nephew who travels the globe--or certain parts of the globe--as an auditor. He fancies himself to be an Indian Graham Green. He likes to give little descriptions of places he visits. The descriptions are planted on his Facebook page. 

Here is an update on Miami:

Back in Latin America for a few days - in the beautiful city of Miami in the Sunshine State of Florida in the country called Estados Unidos de America. Glad to be in the Land of the Brave & Home of the Free and...unfortunately at times...the Abode of the Home-grown gun-totting lunatic who goes berserk at movie theatres, temples etc.

He has been describing Miami for the last 3 years in the same way. He seems not to have the eyes or the inclination to actually observe anything. the description above is hardly a description; it's a verbiage of his vague notion of "America".

He ought to stick to numbers.

As I was saying, the typical Indian has a lousy eye for detail. 

Here is a pair of detail-absorbing eyes:

The Owl Man has gone. He has left Hackney, left London. His gaunt property, close to the newly fashionable barbecue pitch and managed wildflower meadow of London Fields, has been made secure and rigged with scaffolding. Above mildewed steps, pasted with boot-smudged council notices, a wonky sign, hand-painted in red on white, is still visible: DISABLED BIRD OF PREY KEPT HERE. GUARD DOGS LOOSE. CCTV IN OPERATION. The faint reek of feathers, rotting meat, might have something to do with the drains, but it persists [...]

The writer above is describing Hagerstown Park, London, before its conversion to the main site of the recently concluded London Olympics.

The impression of ruin is evoked through sheer accumulation of details.

I and T would say that the Britisher has an eye for detail.